Clathrina jorunnae

Clathrina jorunnae is a species of calcareous sponge from Norway. The species is named after Jorunn Berg, Hans Rapp's grandmother, who introduced Rapp to marine animals.

Clathrina jorunnae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Calcarea
Order: Clathrinida
Family: Clathrinidae
Genus: Clathrina
Species:
C. jorunnae
Binomial name
Clathrina jorunnae
Rapp, 2006

Description

Cormus composed of very thin and highly irregularly and loosely anastomosing tubes. No oscula are visible on the surface. Water-collecting tubes are absent. Colour light beige when alive and white in alcohol. The surface of the tubes minutely hispid due to single actines of the triactines irregularly protruding through the outer surface. The texture is fragile but compressible. Cormus 8 mm in diameter. Skeleton composed of one group of equiangular and equiradiate triactines. The actines are straight, conical and sharply pointed.[1]

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References

World Register of Marine Species entry


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